Mailing List Archive: weird emerge behavior

I've set the useflags sama and cups...
if i want to install cups he tells me this:

configure: error: Cups support required but cups-config not located. Make
sure cups-devel related files are installed.

!!! ERROR: net-fs/samba-3.0.7-r1 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 441, Exitcode 1
!!! econf failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status
message.

if i try to emerge samba, he wants first emerge cups.......

localhost ~ # emerge -pv samba

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N ] net-print/cups-1.1.21-r1 -debug +pam +samba +slp +ssl 0 kB
[ebuild N ] net-fs/samba-3.0.7-r1 +acl +cups -debug -doc -kerberos -ldap
-mysql +oav +pam -postgres +python +readline (-selinux) +xml +xml2 0 kB

But then cups tells me again he wants samba O_o.....

localhost ~ # emerge -pv cups

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N ] net-fs/samba-3.0.7-r1 +acl +cups -debug -doc -kerberos -ldap
-mysql +oav +pam -postgres +python +readline (-selinux) +xml +xml2 0 kB
[ebuild N ] net-print/cups-1.1.21-r1 -debug +pam +samba +slp +ssl 0 kB

okay...i solved it....i just remove the flags cups.....emerged samba,
cups...set then again the useflag cups and emerged samba again...
but how can this happend?

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On Sunday 10 October 2004 5:12 pm, Gerrit Lazer wrote:
> I've set the useflags sama and cups...
> if i want to install cups he tells me this:
>
> configure: error: Cups support required but cups-config not located. Make
> sure cups-devel related files are installed.
[...snip...]
> okay...i solved it....i just remove the flags cups.....emerged samba,
> cups...set then again the useflag cups and emerged samba again...
> but how can this happend?

This seems to be a missing feature (/bug?) in portage as it's reproducable
with gettext and binutils (having nls useflag enabled), too.

Each package depends on the other.

Portage shall detect this and print out an error message describing how to
fix this [temporary].

FYI, this problem has been reported in german user mailing list, too.

Regards,
Christian Parpart.

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